A near constant of this site is that a once progressive capitalism – the predominant system for organising social relations to produce and daily reproduce the material conditions of human existence – now threatens us and most other life forms … Read More »
The Independent yesterday: Sharon Osbourne has called for the Irish rap group Kneecap to have their US work visas revoked after their politicised Coachella performance. The trio – who starred in their own self-titled Bafta-winning film in 2024 – displayed a … Read More »
As more and more westerners grow disgusted with Israel and their governments’ support for its depravity, the far left is going to talk to the public about the difference between Zionism and Judaism, about the western empire and its interests … Read More »
Nuseirat refugee camp after Israel’s bombardment of Gaza on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Moiz Salhi) Philistines call it “mansplaining” but for those who seek to make sense of a world whose most perilous aspect is a dying empire fighting … Read More »
Yesterday morning, in writing my intro to Paul Knaggs’s skewering of one instantiation of the heartless idiocies of Team Starmer, I picked up on Mr Knaggs having quoted Naomi Klein’s splendid work: I can’t recommend Shock Doctrine too highly. It rides the … Read More »
There can be a temptation to sit back and cheerlead for this or that state or militant group and say they’re going to bring the empire to its knees, but really it isn’t their responsibility to end the western empire. … Read More »
Path from Stanage Edge to Redmires, Sheffield. April 2024 * * *
The year now ending saw a record number of elections in the West. In not one of them did the decline of Western supremacy feature. Like the proverbial elephant, it was addressed by neither America’s duopoly nor Britain’s. The same … Read More »
Commenting today on news that New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” over the shooting of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson, Caitlin Johnstone writes: … the label “terrorist” is a tool of narrative control, … Read More »